Trump’s historic legislative victory lets go to seek the next move

What are they doing now?

The only, great and beautiful bill is the law. The Republicans of Congress and the Trump administration have filled all the imaginable legislative initiatives (which would be in the process of tightening with the rules of the Senate budget) in the package. Now, Republicans must understand what to approach during the remaining 18 months of the 119th congress.

There are always subjects on which the GOP wants to concentrate and legislate. But after having approved the brand brand of the legislative program of President Trump, there are frankly not many other major articles that flow the parliamentary pike.

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President Donald Trump, on the right, shakes his hand with the president of the House Mike Johnson after having signed his bill on tax loss and discounts of expense at the White House on Friday July 4, 2025 in Washington, DC (AP photo / Julia Demaoree Nikhinson)

But we will focus on some that are important for the GOP – and could make the headlines.

The first major project is coming next week. A bill on “cancellations” is due to the Senate. A “cancellation” is a request from the administration to cancel the expenses that Congress had already appropriated. The Congress approved a bill on interim expenditure in March to avoid a government closure, but a few months later, the director of the White House budget, Russ Vought hoped to recover 9.4 billions of dollars in spending for USAID and public broadcasting.

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The house barely approved the package, 214-212, last month. Flip One Vote and the bill would have failed. Now it’s in the Senate to line up on the room. Senators must do so before a deadline of July 18.

The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d., noted that the measure was “subject to amendments”. A change in the plan means that the Senate should have it bounced in the room to synchronize. And the administration hopes to make several attraction plans this year. So, if the room and the Senate cannot even cut a few billion dollars of which the GOP considers as low -maintenance fruits….

Cut public broadcast? Especially in rural areas?

Senator Mike Rounds, RS.D., who represents a sprawling state that is still based on radio in places, said he would like to see changes in the cancellation package, in particular in the light of floods in Texas.

The South Dakota senator Mike Rounds was a panelist for the first Reagan national economic forum in California. (Getty Images)

“Looking at radio stations in some of the rural areas that do a lot of emergency services,” said Rounds.

Without a doubt, the biggest challenge faced this fall – and next fall – is to finance the government and avoid closing. The congress managed to avoid a closure in March – simply renewing all the existing funding at the levels dictated by the Congress controlled by the Democrats last year, and signed by former President Biden. The only reason they avoided a closure was that the Senate minority chief Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., decided that a closure was a worst option.

So Schumer and several Democrats voted to help the GOP to overcome an obeda – and to keep the government lights burning.

The Democrats paid against Schumer for having essentially helped to bail out the Republicans and to obtain nothing in return. Some have called him to withdraw. The head of the minority of the Hakeem Jeffries room, Dn.y., and other Democrats bubbed during Schumer’s maneuver.

The New York Times editorial committee accused the Democratic Party of being in the “denial” of the reason for which it lost in 2024. (Getty Images)

Schumer can probably not go well once. One wonders what Schumer could possibly extract Republicans and President Trump – who are not exactly ready to treat – even if they do not have the votes to finance the government themselves.

In addition, it is not clear if a fund’s financing measure of some kind can even cross the room with just the votes of the GOP.

Remember that the president of the Mike Johnson room, R-La., Promised conservatives that they would make funding bills one by one when he obtained the speaker in October 2023. After all, it was the former president of the Kevin McCarthy Chamber, R-Calif.

Johnson managed to advance certain spending invoices last year, but the way to carry out the 12 expenditure invoices before the deadline of October 1 is to shrink. The Chamber’s credit committee prepared several spending packages in the spring and early summer, but none is ready for the ground.

President of the Mike Johnson room. (Ting Shen)

What is the magic potion to finance the government on time this year?

Well, the question is whether Johnson can again keep his coalition together and convince conservatives to approve another measurement of provisional spending. And, as these are mathematics, they must absolutely have the help of Schumer and the Democrats of the Senate to avoid an obstacle again.

Part of this will come down to the fact that President Trump wants. The easy path simply consists in resetting (again) the old period of the old Biden / Democrats for a short period, then marking a wider spending pact later in the fall or before Christmas. But that does not change the figures in the room and the Senate.

And guess what? They must redo everything by October 1, 2026.

From left to right, the head of the majority of the Senate John Thune, President Donald Trump and Chamber Mike Johnson. (Getty Images)

There are also expectations – and certain promises – GOP managers upgrading another package of “reconciliation” full of articles that they were unable to stuff in the great and magnificent bill. A “reconciliation” measure must face tax problems – not a policy. Nor should he add to the deficit over a decade.

So, expect from Republicans who have not marked certain savings articles in the major bill to put pressure for provisions in this package. Senator Ron Johnson, R-WISC., Was among the most vocal defenders for two bills. The president of the Senate budget committee, Lindsey Graham, Rs.C., even put pressure for two reconciliation packages during the winter. He preferred a plan focused on the strengthening of soldiers and the border. Graham then wanted Gopers to turn to a bill to reduce spending and achieve many of the objectives described by the great and magnificent bill.

In fact, the initial budgetary of the Senate – adopted in February – focused on the border and the military.

What else is at stake?

Well, the Republicans look back simultaneously – and the attackers.

The chairman of the chamber’s supervisory committee, James Comer, R-Ky., Conducts an investigation into what the former Biden officials knew about the cognitive state of the former president. Republicans want to prevent future presidents from counting on staff if they are potentially out of him. The GOP wants to build legislative remedies to address a potential future executive that cannot manage work.

The president of the Surveillance and Responsibility Committee of the Chamber, James Comer, speaks at a press conference. (SOMODEVILLA / GETTY Images)

But we have already followed this route. Edith Wilson has practically acted as president after Woodrow Wilson underwent a stroke.

The press body was an accomplice to hide the physical condition of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s and 1940s.

Tackling an altered future executive is a dignified exercise, but the look back can be problematic for the GOP. The Republicans do not really have a good democratic sheet at the moment. Biden provides it. And so, while the GOP focused on the Bidens survey in 2023 and 2024, they come back to the same thing again. It also does not hurt the politically republicans to discover what the former vice-president Kamala Harris knew. Ditto with the former transport secretary Pete Buttigieg. The two flirt with a presidential offer in 2028.

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This includes a large part of the agenda of the legislators in the coming months. The mid-term will be enough here early. Almost everything else will pale probably compared to the big and beautiful bill. And with the touchstone of President Trump’s agenda now signed, the Democrats now determine how weapons against the Republicans in the fall of 2026.

Most of the legislative program is in books.

So what are they doing now?

Campaign.